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Monday, 2 September 2013

David Frost dead? OMG!!!

I heard he died 2 days ago. im just heard now. I have always followed his shows, and learnt a from his style of interviews. he is one of my role models. The journalist and broadcaster whose lengthy career stretched from cutting-edge 60s satire to heavyweight interviews and celebrity gameshows, has died of a heart attack on a cruise ship, his family said.

The 74-year-old, whose programmes included That Was The Week That Was and The Frost Report, was to have given a lecture on board the Queen Elizabeth, which had just set sail on a Mediterranean cruise. Frost boarded the ship at Southampton on Saturday afternoon, and had been due to speak to passengers en route to Lisbon.

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Frost, who was knighted in 1993, helped establish London Weekend Television and TV-am. He was famed for his political interviews, most notably with Richard Nixon in 1977, in which the US president conceded some fault over Watergate for the first time. A family statement said: "Sir David Frost died of a heart attack last night aboard the Queen Elizabeth where he was giving a speech.

"His family are devastated and ask for privacy at this difficult time. A family funeral will be held in the near future and details of a memorial service will be announced in due course."